On Tuesday, Dictionary.com deemed the word "woman" to be the word of the year for 2022, calling it a "prime example of the many gender terms undergoing shifts." The site suggested that, "more than ...

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Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Words are more than simply groups of symbols that describe sounds or symbols that describe abstract ideas. Words are “totems.” The first Europeans to reach what is now the American Northwest saw huge, ...

I’m a word nerd. I like learning the etymology of words and seeing how language changes over time. So I was intrigued when comedian Harris Wittels coined the term “humblebrag” and when Weird Al ...